Leghorn
Americannoun
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English name of Livorno.
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(lowercase) a fine, smooth, plaited straw.
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(lowercase) a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.
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one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.
noun
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the English name for Livorno
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a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs
noun
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a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
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any hat made from this straw when plaited
Etymology
Origin of leghorn
C19: named after Leghorn (Livorno)
Example Sentences
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William Carlos Williams, “Anna Karenina,” Katherine Anne Porter, “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Cats,” Foghorn Leghorn: all get shoutouts here, a collective distress call that fails to move us.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025
The Kipnis family has Italian citizenship through a paternal grandmother who hailed from Leghorn and moved to Israel, via Tunisia, after the Holocaust.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023
Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, the master detective with the Foghorn Leghorn accent who is once again summoned by rich eccentrics to solve a mystery.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022
Who cares if he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn?
From The Verge • Sep. 12, 2022
I sneaked out of the room, went out on the back porch, and stood watching Granny’s White Leghorn rooster chase the dominecker hens and the Rhode Island Reds.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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